Barrel-trundler



(No Model.)

I. LUTES.

BARREL TRUNDLBR.

No. 453,086. Patented May, 1891..

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UNITED STATES IRA LUTES, OF CAIRO, ILLINOIS.

BARRELBTRUNDLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application tiled March Z5, 1891.

To aZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that l, IRA LUTEs, of Cairo, in the county of Alexander and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Barrel-Trundler, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved device for rolling or handling casks or barrels, and has for its objects to produce a simple, practical, and convenient implement of the character indicated, which will be adapted to .readily engage barrels of various dimensions and facilitate their portage either by rolling the barrel and controlling its movement or by lifting the same from the ground and transporting it when thus elevated.

To these ends my invention consists in the construction of parts and their combination, as is hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specilication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the ,iigures Figure l is a plan view of the device with one end of its limbs broken away, engaging a Cask that is broken away near the heads, a modied form of the limbs of the implement being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 represents a side View of the implement clamped on a barrel, the limbs of the device being broken away. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached sectional view of one head-clamp of the device opposite a barrel-head broken away and in section, the section of parts of the implement being taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2; and Fig. et is a detached face view of part of a head-clamp, showing its construction.

As shown in Fig. l, the device consists, essentially, of a pair of shaft-limbs A, that are preferably crossed and pivoted together at the point of junction by a bolt a, or said limbs may be made straight and connected by a transverse bar, as will be further mention ed. The shaft-limbs A may be constructed of wood or metal and rest upon a saddle-board B, Whereon the similar depending standards C are secured at a proper distance apart, a wheel D being pivoted to the lower ends of the standards, thus affording a two-wheeled truck, to which the limbs A are loosely connected by the pivot-bolt a. The handle por-i` tions of the limbs A are sufiiciently extended Patent No. 453,086, dated May 26, 1891.

Serial No. 386.369. (No model.)

(not shown) to afford proper leverage for the easy control of the device and an att-ached barrel when in use. The portions A of the limbs A that project forwardly from the saddle-board B are of a suitable length to efciently subserve their purpose as tongs, which embrace the opposite heads E of the barrel E. The ends of the limb portions A are preferably mortised laterally, as shown, for the reception of the attened end portions of the swinging journal-studs l), which are pivoted in these mortiseslots, so as to have a limited vibration,tl1e pivot-bolts b extending through aligning holes in the parts, as shown in Fig. 2.

The clamping devices which are mounted on the studs ZJ are alike, and each consists of a circular plate G, that is centrally perforated to loosely engage the diametrically-reduced end of one of the journal-studs, a head c being secured to the terminal of the stud, so as to retain the plate in connection therewith, said head having a location within a counter-sink in the plate, as represented in Fig. 3. The faces of the clampingplates G that are adjacent to a Cask-head E when the device is in use have pins c projected theren from to prevent them from slipping, said pins being embedded in the barrel-heads slightly by the compression of the limbs A. 4

Between the limb ends A and the clamping-plates G an anti-friction disk I is placed on each journal-stud l), said disks being each furnished With a series of balls g, which are placed in annular grooves 7L, formed in the disks and therein retained free to revolve by any suitable means, that shown consisting of two concentric cap-plates t', which overlap the grooves and loosely engage the surface of the balls, as shown in Fig. 4.. The hub portions of the anti-friction disks I bear against c ollars nz, projecting from the journal-studs ZJ, so that a clamping-pressure, effected by a manipulation of the shaft-limbs A, will cause the balls g of the disks I to bear upon the clamping-plates G and rotate when the barrel E is rolled, which movement can be produced and controlled by manual force applied to the handle ends of the limbs A.

The modiiiedform J of the limbs A consists in straightening them to lie in parallel planes, as shown in Fig. l, each limb or shaft being connected by a bolt n to the saddle- IOO board B, said bolts passing through the aligning slots 'n' in the saddle-board, whereby a loose connection is afforded between these parts. The straight shaft-limbs J are joined forwardly of the' saddle-board B and near to it by the link-bar J', which is loosely attached to the staples 0, said staples being projected oppositely from the inner side of each limb, whereby the shaft-limbs are adapted to vibrate and clamp a barrel in a manner similar to that effected by the implement previously described, the clamping devices being alike in both forms of construction.

vIt will be evident that, if desired, the barrel, when clamped, may be elevated from the ground by a depression of the handle ends of the shaft-limbs A, and then be moved to any desired point, or, if left upon they ground, to be rolled upon its chine, the anti-friction disks I affording means to effect this readily with but little exertion of manual force, as retardation by friction is greatly reduced, while the perfect control of the rolling barrel is assured.

Owing to the peculiar construction of the device, any-sized cask or barrel within reasonable limits may be handled by the implement and guided safely on gang-planks or other narrow roadways,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a truck consisting of a pair of spaced vertical standards provided with wheels at their lower ends and a saddle-board secured to the upper ends of said standards and a pair of curved crossed limbs pivoted at their point of intersection to said saddle-board, of a clamp for said limbs, consisting of an inwardly-projecting stud pivoted to swing laterally on the outer end of the limb, a disk loosely held on said stud, having grooves in its inner face, and balls loosely helds in said groovesl and projecting from the face of the disk, and a plate swiveled to the inner end of the stud and provided with pins on its inner face and impinged upon by said balls, substantially as shown and described.

' IRA LUTES.

Witnesses:

Louis H. MYERS,

ALEX G. RoYsE. 

